In the computing world, a host of hardware and software is available to store system data, but the two most basic storage options remain the solid-state drive (SSD) and the hard disk drive (HDD).
Forbes estimates that by 2020, 1.7 megabytes of data will be created every second for every person on earth. More than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single day, and that number is only going to grow.